Tangerine Extra Credit

The book Tangerine has things to do with ecology because there are two animals Koi Fish and and Osprey. Koi fish can live for two hundred years. Also, if koi fish are put in oceans or any body of water with plants in it can kill it and make the water deadly. Some koi fish can be bought at pet stores and they could be worth almost $60,000 and they can be really expensive. A cool fact is that there is a koi fish in this country that is over one meter in length.

Now lets talk about the osprey. An osprey can grow twenty four inches with a six feet wing span. An osprey is a large black and white diving which means that it dives down in the water gets a fish and comes back up and eats it. It builds a nest on dead trees and maybe even a telephone poll near bodies of water. A cool fact is that just one nest can weigh up to one thousand pounds. The osprey can fly 40 mph in the air and 80 mph under water.